ivan_nosnibor
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| Has anyone made the jump to $uper High end and were disappointed? Hello Mike and welcome aboard! Nice post and thanks for weighing in here - we may only occasionally get the perspective of someone with your extensive experience. Hope you decide to stick around with us!Regards,John | |
| Has anyone made the jump to $uper High end and were disappointed? @folkfreak "So what does this mean? It means that "good sound" is an intensely personal affair, and that also it’s likely that we all tune our ears to appreciate a certain acoustic aesthetic. Think about the times when you’ve made a change and tho... | |
| Has anyone made the jump to $uper High end and were disappointed? @Wolf, great points! That's probably the best answer to my post above, since I knew I was kinda stuck not being able to resolve for everyone the problem as I see it, but that does it well enough. "If it sounds great, it's great...period". I like t... | |
| Has anyone made the jump to $uper High end and were disappointed? For most of us, I think it may take a good 2 or 3 decades of familiarizing yourself with the market in this hobby to get to a reliably good enough level of experience with which you can feel good about your chances of success at downsizing and get... | |
| Physics of downward firing woofers Maybe the only real listening-oriented problem I could say that I’ve ever really run across in downward-driver designs is that, as a rule, I find there can be a big difference really between "bass impact" (or "wallop") and "bass dynamics". It’s po... | |
| Physics of downward firing woofers The sound waves do indeed, at least to some extent bounce back from the floor, go through the driver cone and back into the enclosure and, while that's not necessarily the greatest strategy sound-wise, it will not really mess things up all that no... | |
| Digital Music sounds too bright? @kalali, not really directly. That audible improvement you hear may be due to more of a difference in the geometry-vs-length-vs-gauge-vs-power load of the new power cord and also, presumably, the better (you could also say "lower noise") quality p... | |
| Digital Music sounds too bright? Got it. Agreed. | |
| Digital Music sounds too bright? It IS, OTOH, very common to experience this level of pervasive "digititis" or "harshness" with all digital. Truth is, you could redesign digital circuits ’til doomsday and never do anything in this particular regard but make yourself poorer.As I’v... | |
| Digital Music sounds too bright? Nothing even remotely like that here. Full, entirely fleshed out, lots of inner warmth, smoothness with detail, flat response, clean, clear, extended, organic, full of life, airy, not a single too-bright CD in the house (a complete audio myth IME,... | |
| Your advice to speakers designers Part of what I’m going on about here may be rooted in how we traditionally approach manufacturing in this country. We don’t necessarily approach wholly from the standpoint of how do we serve the customer’s need. We tend to approach from: I’ve got ... | |
| Your advice to speakers designers I would say that there might be any number of possible ways for a speaker manufacturer to kill an otherwise perfectly good design. | |
| Your advice to speakers designers @trelja Amen!Far too much of what goes on day to day in the speaker biz seems to me to be based on tradition in one way or another - they’re are accustomed to doing certain things a certain way because that’s the way everyone else has always done ... | |
| Your advice to speakers designers Speaker designers will always get it wrong because they can only afford to focus on what they think will sell, not on what is right. Speaker designers who focus on what is right feel they can only afford to ’educate’ their prospective buyers so mu... | |
| Would you sell half your vinyl collection to get great equipment ? And the collection that I had was not the largest ever or anything. But, if I didn't feel pretty doggone confident about a particular potential music purchase, then I knew I might feel better with that money going toward better gear at some point.... |